Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5: The Great Gatsby

Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, th…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5: The Dead of Jericho

Chief Inspector Morse is drinking a pint of beer. He is thinking about an attractive woman who lives not far away. The woman he is thinking of is hanging, dead, from the ceiling of her kitchen. On …

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5: Brat Farrar

You look exactly like him! You can take the dead boy's place and no one will ever know the difference. You'll be rich for life!' And so the plan was born. At first Brat Farrar fought against the id…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5: Brat Farrar: Little Dorrit

You look exactly like him! You can take the dead boy's place and no one will ever know the difference. You'll be rich for life!' And so the plan was born. At first Brat Farrar fought against the id…

Prepare for IELTS : Skills and Strategies Book One Listening and Speaking

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ISBN/ISSN

978-979-22-5067-1

Collation

xiv, 169p.; ills.+CD

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425 UNI p

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: A Dubious Legacy

In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Margaret, home to his farmhouse. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry's life miserable. 'Poor Henry!' say his fr…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: Treasure Island

Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run... ' But young Jim …

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: The Unquiet Grave

If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don't try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don't blow it. If a mysterious m…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: Washington Square

When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come t…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: The Big Sleep

General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn't like being blackmailed. So he asks private dete…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: Mr Midshipman Hornblower

'Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.' But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson,…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: The Scarlet Letter

Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Eve…

Elizabeth Gilbert, a successful writer, had everything - a husband, friends, a big house in New York. But one day she realized she did not want any of it. A new relationship brought more heartbreak…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: Reflex

People who ride racehorses love the speed, the excitement, the danger - and winning the race. Philip Nore has been riding for many years and he always wants to win - but sometimes he is told to los…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: Persuasion

At nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, persuaded to do so by Lady Russell, a friend of her dead mother. Wentworth is a sailor, with no money and an uncertain…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: Land of my Childhood: Stories from South Asia

My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.' But those childh…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: Lord Jim

A hundred years ago a seaman's life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is young, strong, confident of his bravery. He dreams of great advent…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: The African Queen

The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would expect a missionary's sister and a rough, uneducated mechanic to take a boat like that down a dangerous river through th…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: Three Men in a Boat

‘I like work. I find it interesting… I can sit and look at it for hours.’ With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But th…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4: We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

The four Walker children never meant to go to sea. They had promised their mother to stay safely in the harbour, and to be home on Friday in time for tea. But there they are in someone else's boat,…